An attacker stabbed two police officers in Brussels on Wednesday in a possible terror incident, the latest attack in a city still reeling from bombings by the Islamic State group that killed 32 people in March.

A Sydney man was charged on Sunday with committing a terrorist attack and attempted murder that police said seemed to have been inspired by Islamic State, after he repeatedly stabbed a stranger on the street.

A 41-year-old British woman MP from the opposition Labour Party was on Thursday killed after being reportedly shot and stabbed in her constituency in northern England, a week before the crucial referendum on UK's EU membership.